Section 5Sec./Art. 5

The declaration of Culion as a national reservation for lepers by virtue of Executive Order No. 35, Series of 1904 is hereby revoked. Within six (6) months from the effectivity of this Act, the municipal government of Culion, in coordination with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Health, the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Representative of the First Congressional District of Palawan, the Province of Palawan, and the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development, shall determine the areas which shall remain with the Department of Health, belong to the public domain, be alienable and disposable, become the property of the Municipality of Culion, and become the property of the Province of Palawan.

The aggregate land area that shall become the property of the Municipality of Culion shall not be less than five percent (5%) of the total land area of the Municipality. The aggregate land area that shall become the property of the Province of Palawan shall not be more than one percent (1%) of the total land area of the Municipality. The area to be retained by the Department of Health for its hospital zone shall not include forest land or any portion of land devoted to residential, business or commercial, and institutional purposes as well as tracks of land already developed for agricultural purposes or used as community settlements, or those occupied by members of the indigenous communities, and that no portion of marine waters be made part of the said zone.